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MsJ777 — Foliate me, Final
Published: 2004-11-08 03:56:54 +0000 UTC; Views: 2144; Favourites: 28; Downloads: 124
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Here's a cropped closeup of my foliate mask self-portrait. This is after the final touch-ups and sculpting the pupils--I save them for last, since to me they bring the piece "to life".It's still in the drying process before firing, but I'll agree with my sculpture teacher and friend, that clay pieces often look best this way. If you like this, go check his work out as well--he taught me everything I think I know...
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Thanks--it blew up, but my face escaped relatively unscated...
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Thanks. One of these days I need to finish the pieces...
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Lovely work. I agree, sometimes, the look of the leather-hard clay feels the most alive.
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gorgeous piece. I believe a lot of self control and discipline in art defiantly is a sign of intelligence. Your craftsmanship tells me you are very intelligent! Great job.
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You have an excellent technique, you should have enjoyed a lot that work
In the personal thing, I believe that the art lives itself (in greater part) but that to be contemplated.
My english is not very god
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Thanks very much for your thoughtful comment!
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Will she be painted? Love the blackberries in there. So intricate and beautiful.
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Thanks very much! I'll likely use watercolor underglazes and/or oxides on what remains, then seal her...
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Looking forward to seeing the results...
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This really is lovely. I mean just down right, flat out, straight up, LOVELY!
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I thought I was the only freak who saved eyes for last, thinking of it as the point in which the piece "comes alive"...... hehe
Absolutely stunning.
Must have taken you ages with all the little details
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Nope--that's the way I do it, too--plus, do I REALLY want me looking at me while I'm carving away at me?
Thanks! Yep--I took a while--I'll finish me, eventually....
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Thanks! It actually has been fired, but didn't turn out the way I expected. I'm working on how to best present it, and when I do, I'll definitely post it.
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absolutely one of the unique and really masterful works here on dev..
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Thanks very much--it chose another form in the end, but you'll see it again eventually...
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Wow, you're very talented, this is awesome.
All those details, wow, again.
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Thanks! It blew up rather nicely...
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The detail in this piece is wonderful. It reminds me of the green man (well in this case woman) with the way your face is coming through the plant.
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Thanks! Yes, it is a Greenwoman/foliate mask. Now we just have to hope that the clay gods will smile upon it, and it will make it through the fire intact. It's still drying....
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Beautiful!
I hope it's gonna bake well (and survive)
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this is incredible work. my mind can't quite get around the idea of working in 3D in real life...i wish i had taken some courses when i was in college...but i partied too hard.
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Well, I partied way too hard when I should've gone to college--some 15 years or so ago--now I'm way older and actually sober, so it hasn't been lost on me....Thanks!
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I went for 5 years in the 70's and never got a degree...that's pretty pitiful. I have often wished to go back for more than community college courses (I took recording engineering courses in the 80's and produced a few bands) but at 50 it almost seems pointless except for my own enjoyment...but the main problem has always been money. Education should be free dammit.
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That's why i got grants--that way the government pays for my clay addiction, and I get a degree in the process. I've strung it out so long now that I've actually used up all my funding--luckily now that I teach bellydance there, I can get my tuition for free....
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sounds like that worked out very well for you hehe...but i couldn't get a grant or any other kind of funding for school. I had to work most of the time to survive school...and almost didn't survive one winter, but that's one of those forgetable stories.
you seem to be a perfectly rounded individual, with talent galore! stay healthy!
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Snark, gasp, wheeze--I try, but sometimes the creeping crud gets the better of you. Today would be one of those days...
Thanks--I have too many interests in too many mediums to NOT be well-rounded. I can't imagine anything else--I think I'd get bored if I had to stick with one thing all the time. Scratch that--I KNOW I'd get bored...
I don't see WHY you couldn't get a grant--I don't think those 5 years of college credits have expired, so as long as you have a degree plan, they'll give you a grant. Plus if you're on disability, they'd be HAPPY to. Couldn't hurt to look into it. P.S.--I myself have now taken 5 years to get my 2 year degree--hopefully I can finish up by the end of 2005....
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tried all the above and more...i've been waiting on the courts, and the appeals system for almost 5 years now to get disibility. If I'd started out being clinically depressed i could have had it in 2 years...in Washington state and many other states it doesn't take much...but I live in Georgia. That should say enough there, but then if you are not familiar with the deep south, let's just say they get the low end of funding for everything. I should move to Seattle.
various circumstances (too numerous and lengthy to mention here) have caused so much grief and strife and mental anguish--not to mention out-right tragedy--that the government is getting off light if they give me $750/per month for the rest of my short life, as I have enough work points to actually retire. I could get medical help, too.
here are some highlights of beaurocratic nonsense that has proliforated since Bush has been in office:
I cannot get medicaid help while there is a court case pending. I not allowed to apply for any other type of help. I just have to sit and wait and they hope i'll just die before they have to make a final decision.
I cannot get medical insurance of any kind because I'm not old enough, I can't afford it and/or because I have too many health issues that are not covered.
If I get disability or not, I still cannot take any kind of regular courses for that surely means that I am also capable of working part time...and that in turn would keep me from being able to get any kind of help at all...except then I could get medicaid and food stamps...but no income at all. I could go to college then, but I cannot get a grant because I am not really disabled.
Which brings me to the college situation. I came from an upper middle class family, which basically went downhill when my father got end-stage renal disease around the time I was 18. Lots of changes and laws getting messed up during the Nixon Era (which seems to be happening again with the move to cut college grants for over a million students) caused my parents grief, and when the smoke cleared I had been going to college, but dropped out. However my younger 3 siblings all got help with college funding from dad finally being on disability. I was too old by then, and living on my own, working full time...just living, playing in bands, partying...etc...
I gave my father a kidney in 1976 and helped him to live for 11 more years before it failed...but i started developing more health problems, as I had in my younger years, but much worse. It turns out I should not have been allowed to donate a kidney. I was gonna need it myself.
I went back to school in '77 through 1980 and then several community college courses in creative writing, photography and recording enginnering. I tried for grants and other help and the best I could get was "work-study" and ended up in 1980 running the student union deli in the day and working at a local radio station at night. I was planning on getting married until she died in an accident.
I dropped everything...sold or gave away most everything...burned my bridges behind me and left school and town to go hide away somewhere with a few things packed in my beat-up old car.
Since then I've been married twice (10 years each) and all kinds of things have happened to prevent me from re-schooling myself.
I'm one of those MANY people who fall through the cracks. Do you know that I never got any money at all in tax breaks from the Bush giveaway. I was actually too poor both times...and the very type of person who could have used that money...but no. My rich brother got his bonus for being rich enough. His no-good kids each got their bonus, too, even, and they certainly didn't deserve it.
I was trying to run a small bookstore with my wife working elsewhere to make ends meet. But I got sick and lost everything. That's my punishment for being too poor and not being in good health.
sorry for the rant...
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Gadzooks man! S'okay--everyone needs to now and again--I SURELY get more than my fair share...
As for moving to Seattle, yes and no--although they (used to be we, I was born and raised there) DO have a high rate of clinical depression and disability for it, my mom got the run around for yeears on disability--she has something like carpal tunnel that affects both of her arms up to her shoulders, so she shouldn't be doing what she does for a living. Unfortunately, after many tests, they were unable to "prove" anything's wrong with her, so no disability. What's she doing for a living? Keyboarding--which was what caused it in the first place....
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yes...something like that happens to millions of us. I can't hold a regular job, but i can still think. but my brain is not worth much if my body cant keep working. I , myself, wish I had not given up on belly dancing so long ago...hehe.
I have a sister that lives in Olympia (moved this past year from KC, MO...and another sister who lives near one of those towns outside Seattle but i forget which one. she's been there over 20 years and i have never gone to visit her and have never met her second husband.
My second ex-wife (like i should start counting? bah! no number 3!) lives a couple hours from Spokane. she divorced me and moved to WA and got on disability within a year. more power to her. she feels guilty that i'm still waiting on mine and it's almost 5 years.
I have found a clinic though that will do some basic tests and stuff for free, but it only shows how much i need real doctors...at least if my kidney fails. I could go on dialysis...except for one thing: They won't let you unless you are guarantee'd disabled and are on medicare, or at least medicaid.
itsa CATCH 22!
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Well, you could certainly try WA--the coffee's great, that's for DAMN sure!
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i really like this a lot. it is definately something you can look at for a long time and still find new things. the adition of the serpent is a wonderful touch.
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Thanks--I hope it'll survive the trial by fire.
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that is allways the hardest thing with clay. you can allways think that yo uworked it enough to remove the airbubbles. but I have had some good clay work ruined by other peoples stuff exploding in the kiln near mine.
hmm not the best thing to say to aliviate worries about fireing. I hope it turns out well are you glazing it at all or leaving it simple clay?
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True, true--I'm not really worried about it though. If it goes, it goes. I'll probably accent it with underglazes and oxides, then either a clear matte glaze or some sort of sealer--anything glossy would obscure the detail.
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Oh My God!!!!!
Just wonderful !!!!!!!!!
Amazing !!!!!!
Gorgeous!!!!!!
this is really a terrific Sculpture 
Cheers
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